We all do it – and that includes the cops who spend their days giving us tickets for doing it. Of course, they enjoy legal impunity to speed as much as they like, as often as they like. “Speed” only “kills,” it seems, when one is not wearing a special costume.

At any rate, since we all drive faster than the posted speed limit, at least occasionally – even Clovers – it seems right and proper that we do what we can to avoid being dunned for doing it. And feel no moral guilt about practicing such avoidance. Our ancestors felt no moral guilt about doing their damnedest to ignore the Volstead Act – and avoid the clutches of the “Prohees” (Prohibition enforcers) and today almost everyone agrees it was the right thing to do. The idea of cuffing and stuffing someone for having a beer seems both clownish and evil at the same time. Someday, hopefully, issuing speeding tickets (while speeding all day yourself, in official costume) will be regarded with equal contempt.

]]>https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/volcanoes-are-cooling-earth-and-have-reduced-temperatures-and-tropical-rainfall-daily-mail-online/feed/0gamechangersblurbUsers Say TurboTax Deluxe Is Less Deluxe Than It Used to Be – NYTimes.comhttps://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/users-say-turbotax-deluxe-is-less-deluxe-than-it-used-to-be-nytimes-com/
https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/users-say-turbotax-deluxe-is-less-deluxe-than-it-used-to-be-nytimes-com/#respondMon, 12 Jan 2015 19:01:21 +0000http://phillytide.wordpress.com/?p=146]]>TAXPAYERS buying commercial software to prepare and electronically file their 2014 income tax returns should double-check that the version they are purchasing fits their needs.

TurboTax, the tax software from Intuit, drew ire from consumers when they learned that its “deluxe” desktop offering, available by download or on CD, had curtailed functions for some tax schedules that previously had been included. To get the program’s full question-and-answer help to complete the schedules, users must upgrade within the program to a version with an extra cost of $30 to $40.

]]>https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/users-say-turbotax-deluxe-is-less-deluxe-than-it-used-to-be-nytimes-com/feed/0gamechangersblurbEurope’s Islam Debate Erupts as Paris Killers at Large – Businessweekhttps://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/europes-islam-debate-erupts-as-paris-killers-at-large-businessweek/
https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/europes-islam-debate-erupts-as-paris-killers-at-large-businessweek/#respondThu, 08 Jan 2015 17:59:46 +0000http://phillytide.wordpress.com/?p=144]]>The bodies haven’t been buried and the killers are on the loose, but that didn’t prevent anti-Islam politicians across Europe from seizing on yesterday’s massacre in Paris.

The rhetoric varied in intensity across the European Union’s 28 countries, each with its own religious and social phobias, many gripped by an economic recession that makes convenient scapegoats out of immigrants — especially those with veils, turbans and non-white skin.

“I wish my daughter will be free tomorrow to go around without a veil and without any fears,” Matteo Salvini, head of Italy’s anti-immigration Northern League, said on Twitter. Nigel Farage, leader of the U.K. Independence Party, spoke on LBC radio of a “Fifth Column” gnawing away at Britain and “a really rather gross policy of multi-culturalism.” Geert Wilders, head of the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, said it is time to “de-Islamize our country.

WASHINGTON — For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.

Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the heart of the 378-year-old university, voted overwhelmingly in November to oppose changes that would require them and thousands of other Harvard employees to pay more for health care. The university says the increases are in part a result of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, which many Harvard professors championed.

The faculty vote came too late to stop the cost increases from taking effect this month, and the anger on campus remains focused on questions that are agitating many workplaces: How should the burden of health costs be shared by employers and employees? If employees have to bear more of the cost, will they skimp on medically necessary care, curtail the use of less valuable services, or both?

]]>https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/harvard-ideas-on-health-care-hit-home-hard-nytimes-com/feed/0gamechangersblurbChris Christie: ‘Philadelphia Fans Worst In America’ « CBS Phillyhttps://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/chris-christie-philadelphia-fans-worst-in-america-cbs-philly/
https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/chris-christie-philadelphia-fans-worst-in-america-cbs-philly/#respondTue, 06 Jan 2015 20:37:12 +0000http://phillytide.wordpress.com/?p=130]]>PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — We are well aware that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is a Dallas Cowboys fan, so his opinion of Philadelphia fans is par for the course.

Christie has been getting crushed for publicly rooting for the Cowboys during the past few weeks. It all started when Christie was seen in Jerry Jones’ suite during the Cowboys’ Week 15 win over the Eagles.

On Tuesday, Michael Barbaro of the New York Times wrote about some things he overheard Christie saying during the Eagles-Cowboys rematch on December 14th.

“These Philadelphia fans, they are the worst in America,” Mr. Christie was heard saying.

]]>https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/chris-christie-philadelphia-fans-worst-in-america-cbs-philly/feed/0gamechangersblurbThe ESPN streaming deal and how TV is becoming entertainment for old people – The Washington Posthttps://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/the-espn-streaming-deal-and-how-tv-is-becoming-entertainment-for-old-people-the-washington-post/
https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/the-espn-streaming-deal-and-how-tv-is-becoming-entertainment-for-old-people-the-washington-post/#respondTue, 06 Jan 2015 18:47:13 +0000http://phillytide.wordpress.com/?p=123]]>To most Americans, Sunday is a fairly relaxing day. Not so for 31-year-old Chris Sweeney. He’s one of the millions who has dumped television and the cable set-top box for an Apple laptop and Netflix — and so lacks a reliable way to watch live sports. So come NFL Sunday, Sweeney scrambles.

He scours Reddit chat rooms for any mention of some bootlegged streaming service. Or he gets reacquainted with something called RojaDirecta, which promises sports that are “gratis y en vivo” — free and live. “Yeah, I’m pretty deep into trying to figure out what to do,” Sweeney, a Boston-based science writer, told The Washington Post. “I end up watching a lot of games in Spanish.”

]]>https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/the-espn-streaming-deal-and-how-tv-is-becoming-entertainment-for-old-people-the-washington-post/feed/0gamechangersblurbOle Miss Fan pays $900 for Uber Ride After Falling Asleep | FOX Sportshttps://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/ole-miss-fan-pays-900-for-uber-ride-after-falling-asleep-fox-sports/
https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/ole-miss-fan-pays-900-for-uber-ride-after-falling-asleep-fox-sports/#respondTue, 06 Jan 2015 18:43:15 +0000http://phillytide.wordpress.com/?p=121]]>Getting crushed by an unforeseen Uber bill can be terrifying. Especially on New Year’s Eve with surge pricing soaring. But chances are Joseph Martin had a more painful New Year’s Eve than you or anyone else who took Uber that night. An Ole Miss fan and alum, he was in Atlanta for the Peach Bowl with his family.

The disastrous loss to TCU would have been bad enough, but later that night Joseph fell asleep in an Uber on the way to an after party and woke up in Alabama, en route to a home address in Mississippi. With rumors of his $908 tab circulating virally on social media Joseph contacted Outkick to get the whole story out there.

This year’s influenza season started earlier than expected and is sending more patients to thehospital, raising concerns this could be a more severe outbreak than in recent years.

Thirty-six states are now experiencing high levels of flu activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, as this year’s flu vaccine may not fully protect against a strain known as influenza A H3N2 that is currently circulating and tends to be more severe.

]]>https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/severe-flu-cases-on-the-rise-in-the-u-s-wsj/feed/0gamechangersblurbBikini-Clad Kendall Jenner Says Goodbye To 2014 In Dubaihttps://phillytide.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/bikini-clad-kendall-jenner-says-goodbye-to-2014-in-dubai/
https://phillytide.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/bikini-clad-kendall-jenner-says-goodbye-to-2014-in-dubai/#respondWed, 31 Dec 2014 20:19:20 +0000http://phillytide.wordpress.com/?p=113]]>There are only a few more hours left in 2014, and Kendall Jenner is going out with a bang. The 19-year-old model and reality star is currently visiting Dubai with a star-studded group, including famous pals Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid and Shay Mitchell. In between sightseeing, Jenner found time to snap a selfie after slipping into a teeny brown bikini: